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Founded in 1985, Progressive provides quality home care services to the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester County. Our home health aides take care of over 3,000 New Yorkers daily. Our long-standing mission is to provide clients with health and personal care services that help them deal with illness or disability while maintaining their self-esteem, and to achieve their highest level of function and independence in the comfort of their own home, with a particular focus on the ever-changing needs of the aging population and their caregivers. We are dedicated to excellent customer service, the promptest of response times, and programs of constant training and improvement.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

High Blood Pressure

Over the past couple of days we have been posting about foods with healing properties including many that help with high blood pressure and heart disease. Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Check out the below article published by the New York Times titled "Keeping Blood Pressure in Check" regarding the importance of maintaining a healthy blood pressure.


 
"Keeping Blood Pressure in Check" - N.Y Times

Since the start of the 21st century, Americans have made great progress in controlling high blood pressure, though it remains a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure and kidney disease. Now 48 percent of the more than 76 million adults with hypertension have it under control, up from 29 percent in 2000.But that means more than half, including many receiving treatment, have blood pressure that remains too high to be healthy...

View the full article online at:  http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/keeping-blood-pressure-in-check/?nl=health&emc=edit_hh_20130129
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